KSC - Shahid Jabbar Exemplary School

 

 

In 2001 KSC started up an Exemplary Secondary Schoolin the city of Sulaimaniya. The school started as a project to offer high standard education, through developing the Kurdish schooling system and combining it with an English curriculum.

 

Shahid Jabbar Exemplary School is a mixed-gender school providing intermediate and secondary education from the 7th to 12th grades. Every year, the School admits 50 new students who got high scores upon the completion of primary school and successfully passed the School’s admission exams. 

 

The School is scientifically oriented, with most of the curriculum taught in English. Special attention is given to mastering computer skills, English, Kurdish, and Arabic Languages. Attending arts, sports, and music classes is compulsory, with the School providing the required teaching facilities to enhance the learning process in these disciplines.

 

The School has developed a set of rules and regulations, including the rights and obligations applicable to students, teachers, and members of the administrative staff alike. These rules regulate various aspects of school life and aim at building the student’s personality via the student’s involvement in participatory decision-making. Every student has the right to be listened to and is free to express his/her suggestions and views via class representatives and class leaders.

 

In the end of 2012-2013 academic year, all students got excellent scores in the equivalent of SAT exams held in Iraq. In the outcome of the exams, 49 out of 50 students were admitted to various colleges in the Region as follows: 31 students were admitted to the College of Medicine, 10 students – to the College of Engineering, and 8 students were admitted to the College of Sciences.